set_ beneath a plant affected with Curl, I invariably
found it had not rotted away as was usual with those sets that produced
healthy plants. There were as many remedies propounded for the Curl as
for the blight of 1846-7 with a like result--none of them were of any
use.

[34] Report of the Committee for the "Relief of the Distressed Districts
in Ireland," appointed at a general meeting, held at the City of London
Tavern, on the 7th May, 1822.

[35] _Impartial Review_. Miliken, Dublin, 1822.

[36] Report of Parliamentary Committee.

[37] Amongst the means resorted to at this time to raise funds for the
starving Irish was a ball at the Opera House in London, at which the
King was present, and which realized the large sum of L6,000. This piece
of information the Irish Census Commissioners for 1851, curiously
enough, insert in that column of their Report set apart for
"_Contemporaneous Epidemics_."

[38] The chief part of this L60,000 is still under the management of the
"Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor of Ireland."

[39] The following extract from a letter of Mr. Secretary Legge, dated
London, May 4, 1740, and addressed to Dublin Castle, expresses very
_naively_ an English official's feelings about the terrible frost and
famine of that year:--"I hope the weather, which seems mending at last,
will be of service to Ireland, _and comfort our Treasury, which, I am
afraid, has been greatly chilled with the long frost and
embargo."--Records, Birmingham Tower, Chief Sec.'s Department, Box 10._

[40] Speech, p. 26; quoted by Plowden, vol. i., p. 253. Note.

[41] Answer to Address of Commons, 2nd July, 1698.

[42] _Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland_, App., p. 149.

[43] _Groans of Ireland_, p. 20.

[44] Mr. Prior's Pamphlet was dedicated to the Viceroy, Lord Carteret,
and both Houses of Parliament, which proves how certain he was of his
facts and statements.

[45] See Note A in Appendix, for a fuller discussion of the question of
Absenteeism.

[46] "The present miserable state of Ireland." How like the Ireland of
the other day!

[47] _Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland_, App., p. 40.

[48] _Impartial Review_, p. 3.

[49] _History of the Penal Laws_.

[50] 13 & 14 Geo. II, cap. 35.

[51] 11th & 12th Geo. II, cap. 21.

[52] Plowden.

[53] _History of the Penal Laws_.

[54] By the 1st Geo. II, cap. 9, sec. 7, it was enacted that no Papist
could vote at an election, without taking the oath of supre